Required Materials; Required Tools - Waters ACQUITY UPLC I-Class IVD Overview And Maintenance Manual

2 Preparing the column heater

Required materials

• Clean, powder-free, chemical-resistant gloves
• 50/100-mm or 150-mm column stabilizer kit:
– Collet and compression screw multi-tool (collet separator)
– Column stabilizer assembly
– PEEK tubing for connecting the column to the MS flow cell
– Three Phillips screws (one is a spare)
– Three thermal gaskets (two are spares)

Required tools

• Needle-nose pliers
• Phillips screwdriver
To install the optional column stabilizer assembly:
1. Stop any currently running mobile phase before replacing the column
stabilizer assembly.
2. Disconnect the inlet tubing from injector port 6 of the sample manager.
3. Open the column heater door.
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Location of column-
stabilizer-inlet tubing